emerging intelligence? :)

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yep a lot of Catholics like that. Funny how on Easter and Christmas there's about 3 times as many people there as on a regular old Sunday.

 

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Chances are if they were able to travel across galaxies to get here, our nukes would be a bit of a joke to them.

There is most likely a few planets out there capable of supporting some form of life. Alien life can truly be put in the same category as a higher power though. No proof at this point. Maybe someday though.

My point was that if they're some kind of unified, vaguely dystopian species as they're often portrayed, they'd have practically no weapons tech, except that suffecient to deal with their native wildlife. Discord promotes weapons developement - our nukes would be terrifying to a species that DIDN'T constantly infight.

On the subject of searching for aliens, SETI is the biggest waste of tax dollars in the history of the universe. Even if we DO find a pattern, what are we gonna do about it?!

You know Q, I was talking to an alien just the other day. He said our nukes were a joke. He's a lot more worried about the carbon in our atmosphere and the border guards of course.

 

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My point was that if they're some kind of unified, vaguely dystopian species as they're often portrayed, they'd have practically no weapons tech, except that suffecient to deal with their native wildlife. Discord promotes weapons developement - our nukes would be terrifying to a species that DIDN'T constantly infight.

On the subject of searching for aliens, SETI is the biggest waste of tax dollars in the history of the universe. Even if we DO find a pattern, what are we gonna do about it?!

You know Q, I was talking to an alien just the other day. He said our nukes were a joke. He's a lot more worried about the carbon in our atmosphere and the border guards of course.

Okay, that was one of the funniest things I've read in my life. That was GENIUS.

 

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I try Q. I don't know what that program is you're talking about. I suspect it's searching for signs of life out there. They must have a plausible reason for doing it. Sounds like a waste though. Like you said, what's the purpose.

 

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Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Basically, it's these GIGANTIC satellite dishes scanning space in hopes of discovering some signal or another. I'd be willing to bet that all we'll find is the Glenn Beck show bouncing back from Mars (which I believe is the actual birthplace of most talk-show hosts).